Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1887-11-04
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Town and Country.

Town and Country.
Mr. Jas. P. Veirs left here on Monday last
to attend college in Canada
The Orphans Court will be in session on
Thursday, instead of Tuesday, of next week.
Preaching may be expected at Hermon
church next Sunday, the 9th instant, at 1
o'clock, A. M.
Rev. DIR. Milliken will preach in the M.
e. Church South on Sunday next at II
o'clock, A. NJ.
On Thursday night of last week, seven
swans were killed on the Potomac river by
George Good, of Seneca.
The printing for the next session of the
Maryland Legislature has been let to Mr..
Jas. D. Young, of Baltimore, for $6,94O4O.
Elder Ira G. Mitchell, of West Virginia,
will preach at the Christian church, this
next Lords Day at II A. M and 7:3c P. M.
Senator German has been appointed one
Of the State Directors in the b. & o. Com
pany, vice Mr. Hynson, of Kent county, re-
signed
Married, on October the 9th, 1887, by the
Rev. Jas. H. Wright, Mr.. Charles L. Allnutt
and Miss Mary E. Clagett, both of this
county.
The farmers and taxpayers who vote for
Convention at the coming election vote to
enslaye themselves and their neighbors with
additional taxation.
- A Protracted Meeting, conducted by Elder
Malcomson Pittman, of Charlottesville, Va,
will commence at the Christian church on
Monday night, November the 14th.
A box containing curtain fixtures was
found near the depot on Wednesday last,
which the owner can get by applying to
Marshal Hebron at this place.
Bishop Paret will visit St. Johns and st.
Bartholomew's churches, ST. Bartholomew's
Parish, on Sunday, November the 9th, at II
A. NJ. and p NJ. respectively.
Those of our readers who visit George
town will at all times find at the popular
Dry Goods House of John Fl. Smcot line
of goods that cannot be exceled as to quail
ty and price See ad.
A concert will be held at Hermon Pres
byterian Church on next Monday evening
at s o'clock Twenty trained singers from
Washington will be present. Proceeds for
the benefit of the church.
The large sale of real and personal prop
erty, on the farm of Charles g. Wilson,
near this place, on the 18th and 18th inst,
should attract the attention OF all who de-
sire to invest in fine horses, mules and thor
oughbred cattle, or to purchase one Of the
best dairy farms in the State.
Mr. Andrew j. Cashell, an old and we'll
known citizen of this county, died on Mon
day morning last at his residence, near Lay
hill, aged ~ years. Mr.. Cashell was one
Of the largest and most enterprising farmers
of the county and member of one of the
largest families in this section of the State.
Miss Lillian f. Hershey, public school
teacher Of Washington, d. c., was acciden-
tally killed by mule in the streets of that
city on Monday evening last. While cross
ing the street in company with her mother
the animal ran over both of them, badly in
juring the mother and killing the daughter.
Miss Hershey had numerous friends in this
community, where she had been in the habit
of spending the summer for several years.
The Democratic Mass Meeting.-The
Democratic mass meeting held at this place
on Saturday last drew together a very large
crowd of people from all parts of the coun-
ty, and much enthusiasm was manifested.
The meeting was organized by the selec-
lion of w. Veirs Bouic, Jr., as President,
with Messrs S. o. Jones, Samuel Scott T..
ID. Darby, N. d. Ofutt, Thos. Waters, of s.,
Madison f. Harriss, VIM. T. Dove, B. d.
Palmer, N. j. Walker, Henry Bradley, 5.
S. Hays, Marsen Duvall and Alfred Ray as
Presidents, and Thomas j. Owen and
Alexander Kilgour, Secretaries.
The first speaker introduced by the Pres
idcnt was Colonel L. Victor Baughman,
candidate for Comptroller, who, in an adj
dress of an hours duration, arraigned the
Republican party as the friend of monopo-
ly and the concentration of power and foe
80 the interests of the farmer and the labor
ing classes The speaker was frequently
plauded.
Al the conclusion of Mr.. Baughman's ad-
dress Senator A. p. German was introduced
and was received with loud applause. He
made one of his characteristic speeches, not
ing the various points at issue between the
parties in the campaign, advocating call
for Constitutional Convention, and allud-
ing to the condition of the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal.
At the conclusion of the meeting the two
speakers were presented with handsome
bouquets of flowers by the large crowd OF
ladies present.